Gaming the Real World-2016 Subtitles

At 00:00:07,682, Character said: - Wow!

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At 00:00:11,557, Character said: I know I haven't been here before,

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At 00:00:13,142, Character said: but I kind of get the feeling that I have.

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At 00:00:20,054, Character said: I've seen this place before.

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At 00:00:26,966, Character said: Wow.

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At 00:00:34,187, Character said: It's mind blowing.

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At 00:00:35,723, Character said: We're taking something in a video game

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At 00:00:38,494, Character said: and using that to create
things in real life.

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At 00:00:46,245, Character said: We're actually changing the world.

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At 00:00:50,060, Character said: Remember back to when you were little

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At 00:00:51,150, Character said: and you used to like to build things?

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At 00:00:58,862, Character said: - Everyone knows video games

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At 00:01:00,039, Character said: are played for fun,

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At 00:01:02,085, Character said: but could they also be used

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At 00:01:03,623, Character said: to change the world around us?

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At 00:01:08,159, Character said: - Urbanization is one of
the biggest challenges

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At 00:01:10,034, Character said: facing the world,

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At 00:01:11,336, Character said: but it's also a great opportunity.

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At 00:01:13,576, Character said: - This is the story of how
a group of people are trying

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At 00:01:15,943, Character said: to use video games to fix our cities.

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At 00:01:20,856, Character said: - Games can be used for purposes that are

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At 00:01:22,467, Character said: far beyond what their
design was intended for.

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At 00:01:25,448, Character said: - And the story of how the virtual world

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At 00:01:27,255, Character said: of games is being brought into reality

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At 00:01:29,887, Character said: to transform the societies we live in.

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At 00:01:33,680, Character said: - You can take an actual societal problem

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At 00:01:36,298, Character said: and try to tackle it
through the medium of games.

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At 00:01:40,511, Character said: - The connection between a game

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At 00:01:41,560, Character said: and reality is getting closer and closer.

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At 00:01:44,431, Character said: - Hello, London.

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At 00:02:08,222, Character said: - For the first time in history,

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At 00:02:09,874, Character said: more people live in cities

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At 00:02:11,566, Character said: than in the rural world.

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At 00:02:16,006, Character said: By 2050, over one third of people

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At 00:02:18,722, Character said: on Earth will live in barrios,

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At 00:02:20,642, Character said: favelas, shanty towns and slums.

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At 00:02:27,721, Character said: Getting community members,

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At 00:02:29,100, Character said: particularly young people,

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At 00:02:30,526, Character said: engaged in planning and
talking about their cities

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At 00:02:33,678, Character said: is thought to be the best way

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At 00:02:35,614, Character said: of creating sustainable
urban environments.

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At 00:02:40,278, Character said: But in many societies,

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At 00:02:41,674, Character said: this has proved easier said than done.

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At 00:02:53,042, Character said: Our story starts back in 2011,

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At 00:02:56,298, Character said: in Sweden, with an 11-year-old gamer.

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At 00:03:52,593, Character said: What it was was Minecraft,

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At 00:03:54,797, Character said: a game created in 2009

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At 00:03:56,806, Character said: by a guy called Markus Persson,

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At 00:03:58,742, Character said: also known as Notch.

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At 00:04:03,062, Character said: The game gives players

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At 00:04:04,201, Character said: the freedom to build whatever they want

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At 00:04:05,925, Character said: out of basic building blocks.

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At 00:04:09,750, Character said: Now run by the Swedish company Mojang,

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At 00:04:11,744, Character said: it's become the world's
most popular PC game,

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At 00:04:15,301, Character said: with a huge world wide community

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At 00:04:17,986, Character said: of millions of players.

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At 00:04:21,374, Character said: But could using a game to help people

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At 00:04:23,098, Character said: change their own
neighborhoods really work?

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At 00:05:08,670, Character said: For hardcore gamers

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At 00:05:09,734, Character said: and childhood friends David and Emil,

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At 00:05:12,836, Character said: the project came out of the blue.

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At 00:05:19,966, Character said: - The whole thing started out

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At 00:05:21,237, Character said: when I was on a train to Stockholm

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At 00:05:22,874, Character said: and I was browsing Twitter as usual

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At 00:05:24,598, Character said: and I found this tweet
from the CEO of Mojang

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At 00:05:26,414, Character said: who said they had an
interesting project using

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At 00:05:29,702, Character said: Minecraft as a tool in city planning.

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At 00:05:33,706, Character said: That's how we, both of us,

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At 00:05:35,054, Character said: were involved in this project.

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At 00:05:48,090, Character said: Neither I or Emil have any

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At 00:05:49,288, Character said: formal game development education

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At 00:05:51,210, Character said: or anything surrounding gaming at all.

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At 00:05:53,582, Character said: We're just gamers who've been involved

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At 00:05:55,334, Character said: in a really interesting project.

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At 00:05:59,170, Character said: - Five, four

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At 00:06:00,370, Character said: - Three, two, one.

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At 00:06:04,150, Character said: - Game over.

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At 00:06:08,678, Character said: - Trial projects were organized

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At 00:06:09,698, Character said: in suburbs around Stockholm

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At 00:06:11,770, Character said: to see if the idea could work.

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At 00:06:16,194, Character said: - We had three pilot projects

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At 00:06:18,206, Character said: Fisksätra, Drottninghög and Hovsjö.

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At 00:06:23,125, Character said: Me and Emil built the city,

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At 00:06:25,330, Character said: the buildings exactly
like they look today,

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At 00:06:26,906, Character said: the streets exactly like it looks today,

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At 00:06:28,598, Character said: in the Minecraft model.

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At 00:06:30,054, Character said: And we had a workshop
where people that live

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At 00:06:33,146, Character said: in these areas together
with the community,

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At 00:06:35,634, Character said: changes these models as they
want it to be in the future.

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At 00:06:44,524, Character said: Minecraft is like digital Lego.

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At 00:06:46,478, Character said: You can't simulate things,

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At 00:06:47,934, Character said: you can only visualize things.

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At 00:06:49,566, Character said: So, it's easy to learn,
easy to understand,

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At 00:06:51,486, Character said: and it's not too complicated

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At 00:06:53,646, Character said: for the participants or

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At 00:06:54,799, Character said: for the people involved
with planning the city.

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At 00:07:31,644, Character said: - The project's success

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At 00:07:32,809, Character said: opened people's eyes to the potential

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At 00:07:34,584, Character said: of using games to attract
youth to urban issues.

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At 00:07:40,180, Character said: The UN quickly saw

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At 00:07:41,272, Character said: the potential of the idea

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At 00:07:42,908, Character said: and a partnership with Mojang,

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At 00:07:44,228, Character said: the company behind Minecraft,

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At 00:07:45,892, Character said: was formed.

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At 00:07:48,742, Character said: - Youths are very seldom involved

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At 00:07:50,572, Character said: in the processes of planning

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At 00:07:52,312, Character said: and talking about their cities.

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At 00:07:54,530, Character said: We came to know about some trial

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At 00:07:56,544, Character said: projects that had been done in Sweden

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At 00:07:59,808, Character said: and those trial projects

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At 00:08:01,612, Character said: had been very successful.

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At 00:08:03,084, Character said: So, we thought that maybe that can

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At 00:08:04,833, Character said: be brought to other parts of the world.

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At 00:08:08,228, Character said: - Vu Bui and Lydia Winters

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At 00:08:09,516, Character said: headed the team from Mojang.

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At 00:08:16,972, Character said: - The city has been growing

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At 00:08:18,276, Character said: at such an incredible rate

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At 00:08:19,476, Character said: that the public spaces

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At 00:08:20,992, Character said: started to kind of fall to the wayside,

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At 00:08:22,792, Character said: which is what usually happens

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At 00:08:24,336, Character said: when urban development
just kind of goes insane.

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At 00:08:27,537, Character said: And so, now the people in the communities

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At 00:08:29,337, Character said: are realizing no we need to
have these public spaces.

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At 00:08:32,333, Character said: It's incredibly important
to our everyday life.

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At 00:08:38,481, Character said: I recognize this place.

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At 00:08:41,573, Character said: I've only seen it in the game,

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At 00:08:43,115, Character said: but it's actually so close
to what it looks like,

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At 00:08:46,643, Character said: except the work has been done already.

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At 00:08:49,345, Character said: So, before it had these
sort of smaller pillars.

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At 00:08:53,793, Character said: And then they changed it
so that it was more safe.

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At 00:08:56,017, Character said: So that when there's festivals and things,

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At 00:08:57,805, Character said: they don't have to worry
about anyone falling

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At 00:08:59,077, Character said: into the pond.

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At 00:09:02,435, Character said: - Without that community participation,

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At 00:09:04,115, Character said: you lose that ownership,

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At 00:09:05,457, Character said: that sense of this belongs to me,

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At 00:09:07,377, Character said: I helped make this.

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At 00:09:08,861, Character said: And to see people using the space

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At 00:09:10,257, Character said: and seeing that it has...